Ricardo Rocha

I´ve being using my GH4 for months now, mostly with my Panny 25mm F1.4, SLR Magic 12mm F1.6 and Panny 45mm F2.8 Macro.

Specially with my 25mm F1.4, I get really nice DOF and nice bokeh, beautiful rendering. 

I work as a 3D artist and have decent skills with Adobe Software, grading is a pleasure with the in-camera footage, even being 4:2:0 internally.

Of course, for me raw would be fantastic, but I´m more than happy with my camera. I´ve already owned a 5D MKII and a Nikon D600, but the size, ergonomics and true hybrid performance is simply great in my opinion, I had the chance to use the camera both for print and video work, both professionally.

And even better, I use to do some 360 pano pictures and now GH4 has support to promote control (a multi exposure, timelapse and other goodies device). With a 8mm fisheye, I can get a full 360x180 panoramic bracketed picture (HDR). 

All of this in one single marvelous camera.

I really appreciate the suggestions, I was already thinking about gorillapod, but the varizoom gimbal head almost convinced me.

I´ve also did some research about gimbal+brushless 2/3 axis systems, but they´re still too heavy and clumsy for my personal works/studies.

Just ordered one gorillapod focus, let´s see how I´ll manage it. And I got some cinetics wheels too, just for fun :) 

Thanks again,

Ricardo

Hello there,

I´m a 3D artist and my studio (we produce animations and illustrations) has started doing some small video jobs for advertising agencies. We have tripods, sliders and a fluid head (502hd). Other than that, we rent.

For personal projects, I really enjoy shooting as stealhy as I can, walking around and trying to capture things/people/places/actions that interests me. I´m thinking about acquiring some stabilization rig, I´ve already tried edelkrone pocket rig, but I honestly didn´t adapt, after some time and pratice, I found that using the camera strap stretched against my neck gave me very similar results and much mess weight.

I´ve researched and found varyzoom stealhy pro camera stabilizer, but I´m not sure if it works as advertised.

Any suggestions are welcome and needed.

Oh, my actual gear is: Pana GH4, Lumix 25mm F1.4, Lumix 45mm F2.8 Macro, Lumix 12-35mm F2.8. And I´m thinking about acquiring a speedbooster+sigma18-35 and/or one or two primes (Voigtlander). 

Thanks,

Ricardo

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Took my kid and my wife to the science museum. Panasonic GH4 handheld, Lumix 25mm f1.4 and pocket rig.

I´ve recently got my GH4 and I had a shock in the first few days, tons of noise from 200 to 3200 ISO.

But, after a few days of experimentation and testing, I´m just getting in love with my camera.

What I´ve found so far is, every situation (specially low light) needs a specific tweaking to get a finer grain and lower noise.

Also, my Leica 25mm 1.4 gives me much better results than the kit lenses, even using the same f stop for both.

I´ve found this video and got really impressed with the quality. The guy used a tweaked cine D profile, a chinese focal reducer and some nice glass. It has compression (vimeo), but it´s clear for me how much detail it is resolved under low lighting.

Anyway, this camera need fast lenses, that´s for sure. 

Yes this video posted above called "Church Dark" is shockingly good in low-light using the GH4.

 

Does anyone know the settings for this, and if not, has anyone been able to duplicate in their own videos the type of low-light performance here?

 

I've seen nothing that can match it for near dark, so maybe the fact that the guy said it was shot on a GH4 was just a joke? 

 I´m also impressed.

I´ve just got my GH4 a few days ago (with kit lens) and yesterday I got a Lumix Leica 25mm 1.4. The difference is enormous.

I´ve being tweaking with CineD and CineV profiles and the general settings. After some testing, it looks like pedestal introduces a good amount of noise in low light scenes, but I´m still checking. Also, pushing shadows with curves brings more noise as well.

What a shame, my cynical side was right:

 

 

It's mushy time! Ah well... I suppose their target audience must want to record 6 hours of footage on a card or something...

 

In the captured vide the guy says (I paraphrase) "60p for really smooth motion, and 24p if you're a traditionalist and you want that video look."

 

Now hands up what's wrong with that sentence?

 

Yes there's an uncompressed HDMI out, time will tell if it will helps. Many HDMI outs just don't give you huge gains in real terms, just huge files..

And HDMI out should be 4:2:0... I hope not, but it seems it´s the same old crippled video